The leather jacket is back! WGN-TV’s Larry Potash talks to WGN Radio’s Dave Plier about his upcoming triple season premiere of ‘Backstory’ on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 11pm with stories including:

• Larry digs into his own family tree and ancestral DNA
• The controversy involving a Nazi janitor hiding in plain sight that divided a Chicago suburb
• A history professor using a video game to teach college students
• The army doctor’s secret, trapping him between two worlds
• The backstory of the game of golf, and Chicago’s starring role
• The psychology of collecting
• What a prolific collector of Lincoln assassination memorabilia has learned about our 16^th President
• Rarely seen footage from the Chicago Film Archive
• A profile of a man building his very own Viking ship
• A man searching for his brother’s killer may have found him
• The pioneers of science fiction, including Ray Bradbury